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PATRONYMICA

Merthyr Tydvil in Wales. Treadwell and Tredwell would seem to be the same name as Tredudwell.

TREDWELL. See Tredudwell.

TREDWEN. From tre-gwyn, -gwydn, -widn, the white dwelling. There is Tredwen in Davidstow.

TREEN. From the manor of Treen in Zennar, etymologically connected with the neighbouring promontory, Trereen Dinas. Pryce renders Trehân, the summer town; and Trereen, the fortified or fighting place. Tre-rine would mean the dwelling by the river; and tre-rhyn, the abode by the hill; but the name may even be from tre-hean, the old town.

TREEVES. See Trevisa.

TREFAY. See Trefey.

TREFELENS. See Trevellance.

TREFETHEN. A name found in the United States; a corruption of Trevethen. See Trevethan.

TREFEY, TREFAY, TREFFEY. D. Gilbert says the manor of Trefrize or Trefy (in Linkinhorne) is said to have belonged, at a remote period, to the family of Trefey. But see Trefry.

TREFFEY. See Trefey.

TREFFRYE, TREFRYE. See Trefry.

TREFRONICK, TREVRONCK. From Trefrink in Gorran, the French town or dwelling; or from Trewronick in St. Allen, the town of frogs or lizards (wronick, wronag, a frog). Tonkin thinks Trefronick a contraction from tre-vor-in-ick, the dwelling in the way to the rivulet. "Allan Trevronck was living in great respectability at Trevronck in the reign of Edw. III." (C. S. Gilbert.)

TREFRY, TREFRYE, TREFFREY, TREFFRY,

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